Improvement in chimney-holders for gas-burners



E. P. GLEASON.

Chimney Holder for Gas Burners.

Patented NOV- 13. 1866.

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ELLIOTT P. GLEASON,

or NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN CHIMNEY-HOLDERS FOR GAS-BURNERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 59.588, dated November 13, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELLIOTT P. GLEASON, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Chimney-Holders for Lighting Apparatus; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being bad to the accompanying drawin gs, making part of this specification, in which Figure l is an elevation of my improved chimney-holder applied to an Argand gas burner, and Fig. 2 is a section of the same.

Similar letters mark like parts in both figures.

The chimney-l1o1der,as represented, consists of a ring, D, fitting the body A of the gasbnrner, lhll a number of radial arms, 41' n n, for supporting the weight of the chimney, and at the end of each arm a spring, f, which bears against the chimney I, to hold it securely in its place over the gas-burner and the invention consists of a holding-sprin g constructed with a spring-tongue, i, or second spring, the free end of Which extends in an opposite direction from the holding-sprin g, with the free ends of both hearing against the side of the chimney, for the purpose of giving it additional steadiness on the holder, and at the same time afford a wider range of expansion to the glass.

The second spring, z, is best formed by punching it in form from the body of the spring f, in the manner shown, whereby the stiffness of the spring f is reduced, and the pressure of the two springs on the chimney is in a measure equalized; but the spring i may be formed of a separate piece and riveted to the spring f, which may be so reduced in size at the proper point as to produce the same equalizing effect.

What is claimed as my invention is- The equalizing-sprin g for chimney-holders, constructed substantially as described.

EL LIOTT P. GLEASON. 

